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Friday, July 20, 2012

Hits and misses! - Peplum Skirt



I've finally got something new for you, did it a while back and was hoping to take better pictures. But I guess I'm too lazy. Oh well!

Another hand-stitched garment, that I fully intend on re-enforcing once I get a machine of my own.

Hits and misses? Well take a look at it for yourself. The skirt is a total hit, for me at least, the top though I had huge problems with - satin is SO fidgety!



Yes, this was what I was talking about - bad pictures.... hmmm

Anyways, some better close up pics of the skirt and top below, before I go on to explain how I did it.






So, Peplum is the in thing, and I'm totally loving it! I've seen quite a few of them and I was wondering, since I'm working by hand, and my inside seams are atrocious to look at, how would I go about hiding it? Then, I happened to see this black top with cream satin lining and loved the combo of a matte material against something shiny like satin.

Why did I change it to purple? I had on an impulse already bought the shoes without anything to match it with... what?? Tell me honestly if you haven't done that!! 


So first thing was I took a skirt that I already had and used it as a guidelines of sorts. I wanted extra length, so I added that.

And for the darts on the two panels of the skirt, I added an inch to each side, which I later took in to make the darts.




Now here was the trickiest part, figuring out the peplum part. Now as you can see from the above pic of me, the pattern isn't completely long to short from left to right. It has a wave which increases in length towards the end. The whole peplum is about two and half times a skirt width. I then cut up the satin in the same fashion, placed both right sides facing together and stitched it. Then turned it around to get the look you see above. 




I put the zip on the longer peplum side, and stitched along all the side seams. I made the waist band in the same fashion that I did for the Kanzashi skirt. Finally did the bottom hem.

Now, for the top, I wanted something easy, because I don't know how to fit the bust area. Anyone has a tutorial to teach me how?

So, I landed on this tutorial and followed it almost exactly. http://chewynoodles.blogspot.in/2011/08/draped-jersey-circle-top-tutorial.html

And like I said satin is fidgety, and as much as I tried, I couldn't make it sit properly, I gave up and gave it to a tailor, but I'm still not very happy with it. I'll probably end up making a new top for this skirt. 

On a side note, anyone know how to handle satin better? The tailor did picoting/bidding for the edges.. which looks nice and is a better finish than what I did, which was a rolled hem kind of thing.


But, that ended up pulling the threads of the satin, so its not really wearable anymore... thoughts?



I've also been told that the top looks plain, and I've been planning on making some satin flowers in the kanzashi style, if not for the top then I could always add it to a clip and clip it to my shoes.. something like this.. 



On a parting note, for anyone interested in how I did the flowers on my nails... so pretty right? Check out the various tutorials on youtube, its really simple... like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay99VIxzwmo

Till next time, take care and be happy :)





6 comments:

  1. It's amazing that you can sew a skirt like this by hand. Great job!!!

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    1. Thanks so much! :) I'm not sure my stitches are strong enough to last though, I mostly used running and blanket stitch, so I fully intend to redo the insides via a machine when I get one.. Thanks for dropping by!

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  3. Thank you so much for linking up to Dare to Share. I agree, satin is very hard to work with. The skirt looks great. After all that work on the top, I think I would frustrated enough just to go out and buy one instead of trying to fix it. (but that is just me :)) I would love to see more of your projects

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    1. It's always fun to link up :) thanks for the compliment... you know, if I procrastinate long enough, or get hooked onto some other creative idea, I just might end up buying a top for it! :D

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